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Los Angeles-based Accuscore has teamed up with Versus television network, a wholly owned company of Comcast Corp., to develop, produce and distribute National Hockey League-related content.

The multiyear deal gives Versus exclusive television fights to Accuscore's nightly NHL forecasts, which include predictions of player stats as well as game results. Versus, which televises a wide variety of sports events, has cable broadcast rights for NHL games and reaches 74 million households in the United States. Financial terms of the deal with Accuscore were not disclosed.

Accuscore spent months testing its forecast against results from actual games before commercializing the product.

The Versus deal marks the first time that Accuscore has developed a product in conjunction with a distributor. The sports forecasting company was founded in 2004 and has quickly become one of the leading sports forecasters.

In addition to Versus, Accuscore currently licenses its product to ESPN, CBS Sportsline and Yahoo, among others.

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